Good question. My guess is that they believe they can bring RAT voters to the GOP by supporting certain measures. This is delusional, but unfortunately a common belief. Most of the people they want to attract to the GOP cause don’t even pay attention to the news, they just automatically vote for the party that gives out the most goodies.

There are inaccuracies in the ads? What are they? The article does not elaborate or even explain them. Nor does Newt.

It's been a while since I saw the ads, but the one thing that I remember that struck me as inaccurate was a claim that Newt supports amnesty for 11 million illegals. I think that is a gross exaggeration of his position and don't blame him for taking exception to it.

Newt has made clear through his lawyers letter to tv stations that he considers the claim he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations to be false. Newt claims he was not fined, but was asked to reimburse for the cost of the investigations. His basis for this is lost on me, the sanction was clearly reported as a fine when it happened and as I recall Newt did admit wrongdoing and apologize.

King of Bain was made by Jason Killian Meath who writes for Breitbart and The Daily Caller. He also worked for Romney in 2008.

What matters is accuracy, not affiliation. Last night Bay Buchanan indicated that Romney did not work on two of the four companies in the film. Also read elsewhere that accusations made about KB Toys are off, the problems happened post-Bain.

If you had actually watched the film you'd know that the SEC has docs that say Romney did NOT leave Bain.

I think Romney will have little difficulty establishing that he left Bain to run the Olympics. The claim that he did not leave based on what sounds like a routine SEC filing has been refuted. He still had an interest in the company but no longer worked there.

I watched the first 12 minutes then couldn't take anymore. Obvious to me that it was a lefty hatchet job.

Bain did 77 deals during Romney's tenure. When someone will only talk about four, you have to suspect cherry-picking of facts. Not to mention that Romney was gone from Bain when the steel company that has been discussed so much went under.

Pension funds pay a premium to the Pension Benefit Guarantee agency. ...Yes, and just like the FDIC and Fanny and Freddie they have a permanent loss and run a massive deficit that is taken care of by Government back stopping. IE OUR MONEY!

I'm no expert on its operations. You'll have to take it up with PBGC, which says the following on its website:

I'm not impressed. Even though I could not take this thing beyond the 12 minute mark, I'm confident in labeling it a hatchet job.

Your first clue is the use of four examples rather than the full record. Bain probably has done scores if not hundreds of deals, and I'll take a WAG that this lefty cherry-picked the worst outcomes.

I'm going to defer to the Wall Street Journal on Bain:

We have our policy differences with Mr. Romney, but by any reasonable measure Bain Capital has been a net job and wealth creator. Founded in 1984 as an offshoot of the Bain consulting company, Bain Capital's business is a combination of private equity and venture capital. The latter means taking a flyer on start-ups that may or may not pan out, something that neither Mr. Gingrich nor Mr. Obama seem to find offensive when those investments are made by Silicon Valley firms in "clean energy."

The other night on a Frank Luntz special, one participant slammed Bain for “shutting down companies and sending all the jobs overseas” [rough quote from aging memory]. No sooner did she finish than someone else piped up and said Bain saved her job.